Ben Bullock
Fried Egg
- 9 Jan 2010
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Why is butter in Japan so expensive and always domestic? A year or two ago there was a "butter crisis" and butter completely disappeared from the shelves for a month or two. In Britain, the cheapest brand of butter, Anchor, comes from New Zealand, and it costs less than half of Japanese butter. I guess this is some kind of trade protection, but I wonder why.